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niyad

(113,546 posts)
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 01:51 PM Oct 2018

Countries Who Offer Birthright Citizenship (hey, fuckwit, THIRTY right here, you lying POS)

Countries Who Offer Birthright Citizenship
Rank Countries Who Offer Birthright Citizenship
1 Antigua and Barbuda
2 Argentina
3 Barbados
4 Belize
5 Bolivia
6 Brazil
7 Canada
8 Chile
9 Cuba
10 Dominica
11 Ecuador
12 El Salvador
13 Fiji
14 Grenada
15 Guatemala
16 Guyana
17 Honduras
18 Jamaica
19 Mexico
20 Nicaragua
21 Panama
22 Paraguay
23 Peru
24 Saint Kitts and Nevis
25 Saint Lucia
26 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
27 Trinidad and Tobago
28 United States
29 Uruguay
30 Venezuela

One in four countries around the world grant birthright citizenship



Donald Trump says he plans to end birthright citizenship in the US—a practice that grants anyone born on American soil unconditional citizenship—with an executive order. He told Axios:

“We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States … with all of those benefits… It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. And it has to end.”

Birthright citizenship is a privilege, but the US is far from “the only country” granting citizenship to those born within the country’s territory, according to nationality laws tracked by GLOBALCIT. Among the 174 countries with nationality laws data available for 2016, 39 of them, or about 1 in 4, grant citizenship to people born in the country, barring exceptions to children of diplomat parents. It’s the most common practice for the countries in the Americas: Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, among others, all follow this practice. Ending citizenship by birthplace would distance the US from its neighbors.

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https://qz.com/1444724/mapping-the-worlds-countries-that-grant-birthright-citizenship/

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Countries Who Offer Birthright Citizenship (hey, fuckwit, THIRTY right here, you lying POS) (Original Post) niyad Oct 2018 OP
So essentially flotsam Oct 2018 #1
Look at all of those A DAY IN THE LIFE Oct 2018 #2
Most of Western Europe has universal health care n/t malaise Oct 2018 #6
Kinda sorta. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2018 #8
Eleven of them are CARICOM members malaise Oct 2018 #3
took you that long, eh? niyad Oct 2018 #4
Hahaha malaise Oct 2018 #5
Additional Info arthurgoodwin Oct 2018 #7

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
8. Kinda sorta.
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 03:02 PM
Oct 2018

Not really in the sense we're using the term.

We all know Trump is going after birthright citizens born to non-citizen/non-resident parents. No European country seems to offer the kind of unrestricted birthright citizenship common in the Americas. It's a shitty comparison, of course. Infrastructure and space aren't as concerning for us as they are for densely populated European nations, so we're better positioned to have that sort of program.

malaise

(269,157 posts)
5. Hahaha
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 02:28 PM
Oct 2018

I know many, many kids born here who have parents from elsewhere and not just from CARICOM territories.

arthurgoodwin

(38 posts)
7. Additional Info
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 02:53 PM
Oct 2018

In addition to countries listed above, the following also have Birthright Citizenship:

31 - Costa Rica
32 - Pakistan
33 - Bangladesh
34 - Chad
35 - Tanzania
36 - Mozambique
37 - Lesotho
38 - Namibia

Most lists also include Dominican Republic as the 39th nation, but it repealed Birthright Citizenship for SOME of its people in 2016 (part of a dispute with Haiti about what nation a group of 2nd/3rd generation descendants in Dominican Republic were citizens of); see:

Repealing Birthright Citizenship: How the Dominican Republic's Recent Court Decision Reflects an International Trend
https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1100&context=lbra

Lots of good info at link about how trend in recent years is for countries to repeal birthright citizenship. From introduction:

"Most recently, the Dominican Republic's highest court issued a decision repealing the country's constitutional birthright citizenship provision while retroactively applying it to Dominicans of Haitian descent born to parents who never obtained official Dominican citizenship. This decision reflects the rest of the world's action in repealing birthright citizenship for all citizens born on each country's soil. But the Dominican Republic's decision is particularly troubling because it will likely render thousands of people completely stateless with citizenship neither in the Dominican Re- public or Haiti.
In evaluating the worldwide trend of abandoning birthright citizenship, this comment seeks to identify differences among those countries adopt- ing the trend and those flatly rejecting such a constitutional change. The United States is among the very few countries that have continuously re- jected proposed constitutional amendments attempting to change the na- tion's birthright citizenship provisions. In contrast, New Zealand and Ireland are among those countries that have expressly repealed their birthright citizenship laws in favor of a stricter citizenship requirement."

To me, the really scary aspect of repealing birthright citizenship is how it potentially leaves large #s of people with NO CITIZENSHIP AT ALL.

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